Scientists are learning from the 1700-year-old Lycurgus Cup, which changes colour thanks to nano particles.
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Scientists concluded that the chicken came first, not the egg, because the protein which makes the egg shells is only produced by hens.
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At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.
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If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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Indoor pollution is 10 times more toxic than outdoor pollution.
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Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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A single cup of gasoline, when ignited, has the same explosive power as five sticks of dynamite.
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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